MAKING LIGHT OF IT: Stan Brakhage

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3.1.12

Rhythm & Blues

5:03 PM

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(From The Films of Stan Brakhage... by Bruce Elder)

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(Unconscious London Strata by Stan Brakhage)

Labels: Bruce Elder, Le Marteau Sans Maître, Pierre Boulez, Stan Brakhage, The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition, Unconscious London Strata | 1 comments

3.2.11

The Text of Light

7:14 PM

"All that is is light." - Dun Scotus Erigena

"To see a world in a grain of sand." - William Blake

These the primary impulses while working on this film. It is dedicated to Jim Davis who showed me the "first spark" of refracted film light.

-Brakhage's program notes for The Text of Light

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(From The Text of Light by Stan Brakhage; courtesy Anthology Film Archives)

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(From Canto LXXIV by Ezra Pound)

(From Canto LXXXVII by Ezra Pound)

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(From The Films of Stan Brakhage... by Bruce Elder)

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See Robert Grosseteste's On Light here...

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(From The Text of Light by Stan Brakhage; courtesy Anthology Film Archives)

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Labels: Anthology Film Archives, Bruce Elder, Ezra Pound, John Scotus Erigena, Robert Grosseteste, Stan Brakhage, The Cantos of Ezra Pound, The Text of Light | 0 comments

14.1.11

As you may or may not have heard, today was Stan Brakhage's birthday. I won't say much, as the unquantifiable importance his work has held in my own life since my first chance discovery has been elucidated here time and again. It was a discovery that gave me my sense of wonder back, a wonder that has deepened every day since. Instead I'll post the following brief but exquisite essay by Kristin Prevallet entitled Angels in the Apparatus...